On Hollywood: The Place, The IndustryWhy is the U.S. motion picture industry concentrated in Hollywood and why does it remain there in the age of globalization? Allen Scott uses the tools of economic geography to explore these questions and to provide a number of highly original answers. The conceptual roots of his analysis go back to Alfred Marshall's theory of industrial districts and pick up on modern ideas about business clusters as sites of efficient and innovative production. |
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... Hollywood majors: corporate ownership relations. 3.3. Schema of the Hollywood motion picture production complex and its external spatial relations. 29 39 43 48 3.4. Motion picture production companies in Southern California. 50 3.5 ...
... production systems. As it happens, Los Angeles, and more broadly, Southern California, have figured promi- nently throughout this line of work as both research laboratories and exemplars. Here they crop up again, under the sign of Hollywood ...
... production in other parts of the world might rise to challenge Hollywood's hegemony? On Hollywood is centrally concerned with just such issues as these. It is thus not only a descriptive account of Hollywood as an industrial agglom ...
... production that has occurred over the last couple of decades has been very largely based in major urban centers. Places like Los Angeles, New York, London, Paris, Berlin, Rome, or Tokyo have always been important hubs of cultural production ...
... Hollywood. In this manner, new aptitudes flow continually into particular clusters from outside, thus helping to enlarge their production capabilities and to refresh their pools of talent. The spatial systems of production, work, and ...
Contents
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Origins and Early Growth of the Hollywood Motion Picture Industry | 11 |
A New Map of Hollywood | 35 |
The Other Hollywood Television Program Production | 61 |
Dream Factories Studios Soundstages and Sets | 79 |
The Digital Visual Effects Industry | 95 |
Local Labor Markets in Hollywood | 117 |
Hollywood in America and the World Distribution and Markets | 138 |
Cinema Culture Globalization | 159 |
References | 177 |
Index | 189 |